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Groen Genoegengarden design & build
Designed garden in low evening light: swaying ornamental grasses and purple sage along a grey natural stone path, an oak pergola with a table and a beech hedge in the background

The biggest roomin your house is outside.

Long border at a 1930s house in late summer: purple moor grass, pink coneflower, purple sage and verbena along a lawn path, low sunlight from the side
120Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’border at a 1930s house, late June

Garden design, planting plans, builds and maintenance in and around Voorbeeldstad. We draw your garden, grow the plants ourselves and build it with our own gardeners.

Book a consultationSee our gardens

Gardens we
drew and planted

Every garden starts as a pencil drawing on our table. Below are three that have now been in the ground for a few seasons: a town garden, a border and a gravel garden.

Narrow town garden seen from above from a balcony: a terrace of sawn grey natural stone under an oak pergola, stepping stones in gravel and borders with ferns and white hydrangea
Garden 01 · 84 m²Town garden on the SingelA narrow town garden of 6 by 14 metres, now an outdoor room under an oak pergola.36Hakonechloa macra
Long border at a 1930s house in late summer: purple moor grass, pink coneflower, purple sage and verbena along a lawn path, low sunlight from the side
Garden 02 · 380 m²Border at a 1930s houseA 380 m² garden with long borders full of grasses that keep going into November.140Molinia caerulea ‘Moorhexe’
Gravel garden by a white farmhouse: pale gravel beds with clumps of thyme, lavender and feather grass, a bench of weathered oak under an old pear tree
Garden 03 · 210 m²Gravel garden at the farmA dry garden of gravel, thyme and feather grass around an old pear tree.90Stipa tenuissima

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From pencil
to planting hole

You can have us do just the design, or everything: drawing, growing, building and looking after it. Then you know for sure the garden turns out the way it was drawn.

VAT (21%) is included in every amount.

Garden designer leaning over a coloured planting plan on an old workbench in a nursery, among pots of perennials and ornamental grasses, hands pointing at the drawing
230species in stockour nursery on the edge of Voorbeeldstad

This is what
a design looks like

From above, coloured in, with each plant group as a cloud and each tree as a crown. This is the drawing of the town garden on the Singel: 84 m², six metres wide.

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Town garden on the Singel

An outdoor room under an oak pergola, a path of stepping stones through gravel and a bench against the beech hedge.

  1. 1Terrace of sawn Belgian bluestone
  2. 2Oak pergola
  3. 3Stepping stones in Maas gravel
  4. 4Multi-stem serviceberry
  5. 5Corten steel water trough
  6. 6Oak bench
  7. 7Beech hedge
  8. 8Shade border with ferns and forest grass

From February
to December

Every planting plan comes with a flowering calendar. That way you see in advance that something is always in flower, and that the garden won't look bare in winter: we leave the plumes and seed heads standing.

About the planting plan
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Helleborus orientalisLenten rose
Euphorbia characiasspurge
Geranium ‘Rozanne’cranesbill
Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’sage
Echinacea purpureaconeflower
Persicaria ‘Firetail’knotweed
Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’Japanese anemone
Molinia ‘Moorhexe’purple moor grass
Aster ‘Little Carlow’aster
Sesleria autumnalisautumn moor grass

flowering plumes and seed heads in winter

Gravel garden by a white farmhouse: pale gravel beds with clumps of thyme, lavender and feather grass, a bench of weathered oak under an old pear tree
90Stipa tenuissimafeather grass in Rhine gravel, gravel garden at the farm

Stone, timber,
gravel and green

We choose materials that get better with age. On the drawing each material has its own hatching, so you see exactly what goes where.

  • Natural stoneSawn Belgian bluestone, travertine or a clay paver. Gets better as it weathers.
  • TimberOak and Douglas fir, untreated. For pergolas, decks, benches and fences that may turn grey.
  • GravelMaas gravel, Rhine gravel or chippings, on a stable base. Crunches underfoot and lets rain through.
  • Grass and greenLawn, flowering meadow or a border. A garden with more green than stone stays cooler and holds water.

How it works

  1. 1Consultation at home€145, deducted from the design
  2. 2Survey and sun studywithin a week
  3. 3Sketch designafter two weeks
  4. 4Final designafter four to six weeks
  5. 5Budget and scheduletogether with the design
The whole process
Garden designer leaning over a coloured planting plan on an old workbench in a nursery, among pots of perennials and ornamental grasses, hands pointing at the drawing

Shall we startwith a walk round your garden?

A consultation at your home takes an hour and a half and costs €145. Afterwards you have a first sketch and our notes. If you then go for a design, we deduct the amount.

Book a consultationor call 06 12345678